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68. The connection of the hospital buildings with the local authority's sewer Sewage
was completed on 6th January, 1927, and the former system, which obtained for disposal.
43 years, of distributing sewage, after treatment, over the farm land has been discontinued.
Claybury Menial Hospital.
69. The new admission villa for 43 female patients, the erection of which has
been authorised, is in course of construction.
Female
admission
villa.
70. Structural alterations to provide for improved classification of patients
have been completed at M and N blocks and are in process of being carried out at
block C. A plan of alterations for a similar purpose at block S has been approved
by the Minister of Health and the work is about to be put in hand.
Colney Hatch Mental Hospital.
Ward improvements.
71. We have had under consideration the question of the water supply, which
is provided at this hospital by a well. Although the volume of water in the well
has been diminishing during the last twenty years, we are advised that the yield
probably will be maintained for some years to come, though it may be necessary
either to deepen the well or to make alterations in the pumping apparatus. The
position is being kept under observation.
Water
supply.
72. The new admission block for 40 male patients (the erection of which has
been authorised), is in course of construction.
Hanwell mental hospital.
Male
admission
block.
73. An agreement has been completed between the Couucil and the Metropolitan
Water Board for the supply of water to Warren Farm, an estate purchased for
addition to the hospital during 1925.
Warren
Farm
estate.
74. A scheme has been put in hand for remodelling the drainage from buildings
on the Warren Farm estate. Until recently the sewage there has drained into a
cesspit. Arrangements are being made to connect the drainage system with the
sewer of the Southall-Norwood Urban District Council.
Horton Mental Hospital.
75. To enable the Epsom Urban District Council to widen the road at the corner
of Long Grove Road and Horton Lane, with a view to minimising the risk of accident
from fast moving traffic, a small piece of land, about 640 square feet, forming part
of the Horton mental hospital estate, has been surrendered to the Epsom Urban
District Council, in consideration of the payment by that Council of the sum of £10.
West Park mental hosvital.
Road
widening
76. The last four blocks of the hospital, viz., A. B, C and D, have now been
completed and only the chapel remained unfinished at the end of the period
covered by this report.
Completion
of works—
hospital and
chapel.
77. A contract for the provision of an organ for the chapel has been
placed with Messrs. H. Willis and Sons and Lewis and Co., Ltd., of Liverpool, whose
tender (£780) was the lowest.
The Maudsley Hospital.
Organ for
chapel.
78. The Maudsley Hospital has now commenced its fifth year of work and
continues fully to prove the utility and value of such an establishment for the
treatment of cases of early mental breakdown and incipient mental disorder. Full
details of the year's work are given in the Annual Report of the medical superintendent,
which will be issued as a separate document.
Work of the
hospital.